Religion seems to be a complicated and many-sided issue. On one hand, religion reportedly motivates charity, compassion, ethics, goodwill, kindness, morality, righteousness, selflessness, unity, etc.

Almost all the great religions have gone wrong by identifying with nation states and their coercive power and nations by ...

"It has been fashionable to affirm that all religions are beautiful and all are true," writes Boston University religion professor Stephen Prothero in the Boston Globe. In fact, many feel-good ...

In many countries around the world, a fifth or more of all adults have left the religious group in which they were raised. Christianity and Buddhism have experienced especially large losses from this ...

How should we interact with "other" religions and denominations? It is generally suggested that we should approach such interaction with active listening, building bridges, building on commonly held ...

National and royal flags fly outside religious sites in Thailand, Turkey, the U.S. and Israel. (Clockwise from top left: Vera Tikhonova, Westend61, Samuel Corum and Paul Souders, all via Getty Images) ...

(RNS) — A new Pew Research Center study measuring the evolution of the global religious population shows Muslims are the fastest-growing faith group, followed by the religiously unaffiliated. Though ...

Recent legislation across our nation appears to respond to attacks on Christianity. As these debates unfold, I believe it’s important to reflect on what religious freedom means in America. The United ...

Since the invention of money, the major religions of the world have grappled with its effect on human morality, the unequal distribution of wealth, and the indignities of poverty. Through money, even ...

In the not-so-distant past, our nation stood as a proud beacon of inclusivity, a place where the tapestry of cultures, backgrounds and beliefs was woven into the very fabric of our identity. The ...

Light shines through the doors of Zionskirche, a Protestant church in Berlin. (Busà Photography/Getty Images) How we did this Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to examine rates of religious ...

At the Congress of World and Traditional Religions, Rabbi David Yosef called for an end to terrorism, stressed Judaism’s ...